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Incredible tweet from signal cofounder. (nitter.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations. Don’t sleep on this opportunity…

Editing to add the link to the messages: https://archive.is/2025.03.26-131842/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They also claimed they couldn't leave bubbles in different colors because of the engineering effort. They had to make the android bubbles look gross like apple bubbles to reduce their test and maintenance costs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm glad someone still remembers. I reported that as a bug when it first happened because it seemed like such a bad choice that I assumed it was in error. Colored chat bubbles were great